Agenda Overview – PAW for Government – September 17 – 18, 2012
| DAY 1: Monday, September 17, 2012 | ||
| 7:15-8:15am | Registration & Breakfast Sponsored by: 
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| 8:15-8:30am |
WELCOME REMARKS Isaiah Goodall, Director of Business Development, Elder Research, Inc. and Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World for Government Gerhard Pilcher, Vice President and Senior Scientist, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 8:30-9:30am | Keynote Becoming an Ace with a Robot as your Wingman! John Elder, Ph.D., CEO, Elder Research, Inc. |
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| 9:30-10:10am | SAS Panel Gaining Executive and Senior Management Support for Predictive Analytics  Bailey Spencer, Director for Federal Civilian and Homeland Security, SAS Federal, LLC (Moderator) Niall Brennan, Director, Office of Information Products and Data Analytics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); John A. Cassara, Former Senior Special Agent for the Department of Treasury and Author/Lecturer on Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing; Brian Montgomery, Former Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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| 10:10-10:50am | BREAK Sponsored by:
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Data Analytics to Improve Risk Management, Cyber Security, and DHS Policy Moderator: David Perera, Fierce Markets and FierceHomelandSecurity David Kaufman, Director of Policy and Program Analysis, FEMA; Tom Finan, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist & Counsel, National Protection Programs Directorate (NPPD); Val Stoyanov, Reporting and Analysis Program Manager, National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) |
IRS Panel: Strategic Workforce Analytics Tool at IRS Tommy Smith, Director of OPERA, IRS Jonathan Edelson, Supervisory Management and Program Analyst, IRS Emily Shammas, Operations Research Analyst, IRS Rahul Tikekar, Computer Scientist, IRS |
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| 12:00-1:15pm | LUNCH Sponsored by: 
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| 1:15-2:00pm | Keynote Making Analytics Pay Dean Silverman, Senior Advisor to the Commissioner and Director, Office of Compliance Analytics, IRS |
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| 2:00-2:30pm | New Methods for Developing Limited Datasets for Predicting USMC Combat Losses JMP, Booz Allen, and USMC Captain Aaron D. Burciaga, Director of Logistics Operations Analyses (LX), Installations and Logistics Department, USMC Headquarters Pentagon; Andrea Ferris, Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. |
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| 2:30-3:00pm | ||
| Audit Analytics: Prioritizing Audits of Facility Lease Renewals Matt Miller, Audit Manager, USPS OIG Monique Colter, Audit Director, USPS OIG |
Future Data Standardization Mandates and What They Mean for Analytics Hudson Hollister, Executive Director, Data Transparency Coalition |
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| 3:00-3:35pm |
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| Maximizing CMS Data for Internal and External Users Niall Brennan, Director, Office of Information Products and Data Analytics, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) |
5 Myths of Predictive Analytics Piyanka Jain, CEO, Aryng.com, Former PayPal Business Analytics Head | |
| 4:05-5:15pm |
Panel Discussion How to Start a Data Analytics Group Moderator: Gerhard Pilcher, Elder Research Inc. Fred Walker, Technical Director, Counterintelligence Knowledge Management, NSA; Bryan Jones, Director, Data Mining Group, USPS OIG ; Johan Bos-Beijer, Director, Strategic Solutions Division, GSA |
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| 5:15-6:15pm | NETWORKING RECEPTION | |
| DAY 2: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 | ||
| 7:15-8:15am | Registration & Breakfast Sponsored by:
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| 8:15-9:00am | Keynote Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board Use of Analytics and Data for Fraud Prevention Michael Wood, Executive Director, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board |
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| 9:00-9:45am | Healthcare Fraud - Detecting Workers' Compensation Fraud with Predictive Analytics Bryan Jones, Director, Data Mining Group, USPS OIG & Ingrid Petrakis, Claimant Fraud Specialist, Data Mining Group, USPS OIG, Office of Investigations |
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| 9:45-10:15am | Applying a Risk Intelligent Modeling (RIM) Approach to Financial Management Transformation Lieutenant Commander Amy Florentino, US Coast Guard & Robert Gramss, Principal, Accounting, Valuation, and Analytics, Audit and Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP |
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| 10:15-10:50am | BREAK Sponsored by: 
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Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse with Predictive Analytics Antonia de Medinaceli, Director of Fraud Analytics, Elder Research |
Forecasting Housing Subsidy Need in an Uncertain Economy Dave Vennergrund, Vice President, Business Analytics, CACI Matt Bailey, Lead Designer, CACI |
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| 11:25-11:55am | ||
Reducing the Time and Cost of Predictive Analytics
 Nils Engel, Analytics |
Preventing Catastrophic Incidents By Predicting Where They Are Most Likely To Occur And Why Christopher Larmey, Assurance Systems, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Cindy Caldwell, ES&H Senior Technical Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
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| 12:00-1:00pm |
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| 1:05-1:50pm | Keynote Predictive Modeling to Find Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse at CMS David Nelson, Director Data Analytics and Control Group (DACG), Center for Program Integrity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) |
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| 1:50-2:20pm | Big Data Analytics Best Practices of Real-World Government Agencies Marshall Presser, Field Chief Technology Officer, Greenplum, A Division of EMC |
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| 2:20-2:30pm | The Many Facets of 'Predictive' Analytics in Government  Bill Haffey, Manager, SPSS Technical Professional Group, Federal IMT, IBM |
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| 2:30-3:05pm | BREAK Sponsored by:
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| Applying Predictive Analytics to Public Sector Applications Benjamin Chard, Client Technical Professional, IBM |
GOT BOTS? A Machine Learning Technique For Effective Detection Of BotNets Dr. Aaron Ferguson, Technical Director, Cyber and Information Analytics Office, National Security Agency (NSA) | |
| 3:50-4:50pm |
Panel Discussion Predictive Analytics from the CTO Perspective Moderator: Gerhard Pilcher, Elder Research Inc. Gus Hunt, Chief Technology Officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Larry Koskien, Assistant Inspector General and CTO, USPS Office of Inspector General |
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| 4:50-5:00pm | CLOSING REMARKS | |
